Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Steve Devine wrote:
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Hi everyone,
Traditionally, we have used direct-attached scsi disk packs on Sun Sparc
servers running Solaria 9 for OpenAFS. This has given us the most bang
for the buck. We forgo RAID because we have the backup capabilities
of AFS.
What types of storage technologies are other AFS sites using for their
AFS vicep partitions? We need to figure our future direction for the
next couple of years. Fibre channel seems all the rage, but it's quite
expensive. I'm open to any and all feedback. What works? What doesn't?
What offers the best bang for the buck on an OpenAFS server?
This is for an academic environment that fills both academic and
research needs. Researchers are asking for lots of AFS space (200GB+).
Of course this needs to be backed up as well.
Thanks,
Jason
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We are using Iscsi for user vols. We put volumes that require higher
performance on a Fiber Based San.
What's serving the iSCSI? Is it a storage appliance of some sort?
Thanks,
Jason
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We are using a unit from infortrend.com its ISCSi to SATA. (16) 500G
drives in a raid6 config. So we are getting about 6.5 T out of it.
Some things about this scare me I won't deny but it is a lot of disk
space for reasonable prices. (seems like it was around 7~8k)
Seek time is an issue when you have 350G partitions. I also worry about
salvage times if we suffer a crash .. but I compiled the fileservers
with fast restart and so far I have not had to test it. We have been
online with this device about 10 months. So far so good.
--
Steve Devine
Network Storage & Printing
Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University
506 Computer Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1042
1-517-432-7327
Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra
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